On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 2:50:12 PM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:38 AM, <sohcahto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Secondly, even if you find a module, keep in mind that the module probably > > won't stay in Python land. It will probably call an external utility > > itself. > > > > If you REALLY wanted to check it without calling an external utility, you > > could connect to port 67 and see what happens, but that could cause > > problems. > > We're talking UDP here, so there's no "connect to" concept. You have > to send a packet and listen for a reply, and that might have > consequences (eg if you send a DHCPDISCOVER just to find out if > there's a DHCP server, you potentially cause a temporary IP > allocation). > > Reading from /proc or running an external program would be the best > ways to find out. > > ChrisA
I forgot that DHCP uses UDP. My mistake. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
